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Munda people of Jharkhand also follow the age old tradition of Patthalgari, i.e., stone erection, in which the tribal community residing in the village buries a large inverted U-shaped dressed headstone on the head side of a grave or at the entrance to the village, in which is inscribed the family tree of the dead persons. [39]
Munda-speaking people have high amount of East Asian paternal lineages O1b1 (~75%) and D1a1 (~6%), which is absent from other Indian groups. They found that the modern Munda-speaking people have about 29% East/Southeast Asian , 15.5% West Asian and 55.5% South Asian ancestry on average.
Birsa Munda pronunciation ⓘ (15 November 1875 – 9 June 1900) [4] was an Indian tribal independence activist, and folk hero who belonged to the Munda tribe. He spearheaded a tribal religious millenarian movement that arose in the Bengal Presidency (now Jharkhand) in the late 19th century, during the British Raj, thereby making him an important figure in the history of the Indian ...
The Munda are an ethnic tribal (Adivasi) group of people of the Chota Nagpur Plateau region. Munda people are categorised as Scheduled Tribe by Constitution of India which are found in Jharkhand , Chhattisgarh & Orrisa .
The Santhal people believe in nature worship, and their place of worship is in sacred groves known as Jaher and Sarna, in contrast to Hindu places of worship in temples. They also perform animal sacrifices to honor their gods and accept flesh, including beef and pork , practices that are generally prohibited in Hinduism . [ 38 ]
Encyclopaedia Mundarica is a multi-volume work describing the language and culture of the Munda people of Chota Nagpur. The project was begun by Jesuit priest John Baptist Hoffmann and completed after Hoffmann's death by Arthur van Emelen. Hoffmann's contributions during his lifetime went into sixteen parts (sometimes listed as sixteen volumes ...
ᶑoᶑ-kay-ʈu-ᶑom-bhaʔ-goᶑ-na=m carry- BEN - TLOC - PASS -quickly- COMPL - FUT = 2SG. OBJ ᶑoᶑ-kay-ʈu-ᶑom-bhaʔ-goᶑ-na=m carry-BEN-TLOC-PASS-quickly-COMPL-FUT=2SG.OBJ "Get yourself there for me quickly" The Munda languages also make extensive uses of prefixes and infixes, in contrast to exclusively suffixing Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages. Causative infixes -pV- and -nV ...
His Encyclopaedia Mundarica whose publication started soon after his death (18 November 1928 in Trier), is a monumental work of love: 15 volumes encompassing in its pages the whole culture and civilization of the Munda people.